OTTAWA SHORT FILMS 2023

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1st Session | Friday June 9, 2023 - Alliance Française — Ottawa 352 MacLaren St. | Ottawa

OUR BEAUTIFUL EYES
Why did they choose us “us, students from a third world” to be part of this cinema school in Paris? And what can we film in here? A place where we don’t belong. Fatima leads an investigation.

Director: Fatima Joumaa
A PERSON BECOMES AN OBJECT
After a long time of caring for her ailing father, a young woman fights her emotions and the numbness that comes with impending loss. As her father’s death looms closer, she spirals in her own way.

Director: Julie Chalhoub
UN POUR HUIT
After a big battle with cancer, Carine has only one solution to save her life: organ transplant. In a country where everyone is born a donor, transplantation was a lifesaving answer. But if this French scenario was placed in a Lebanese setting, would Carine have had the chance to tell us her story?

Director: Lynn Tawilé
RESTLESS MIND
Restless Mind evokes memories of a senior person at the end of his life, depicting the transition moments between life and death through a photograph that he took with his family when they were together. The film is a tribute to my father who was sick living his end.

Director: Bachar Bachoura
SHATTERED
When everything is repaired from the outside, what do we do about the broken parts inside? This is the story of Yasmine. She often takes refuge in her imagination. After the Beirut explosion happens though, her coping mechanism does not work so well anymore…

Director: Elyssa Skaff
L'ARBRE
Super 8mm and 16mm footage and expired cartridges found and shot in Quebec reflect on words written in Beirut to create a melancholic postcard between both worlds.

Director: Chantal Partamian
LEILA AND THE CIGARETTE
In 2011, Leah decided to go to Lebanon to film with her grandmother. Two weeks after the shoot, her grandmother died of metastatic lung cancer. It took her 12 years to get the courage to revisit their last conversations. Through memories and poems she draws the portrait of her grandmother in homage to her unique character.

Director: Leah Manasseh